Category Archives: Behind The Scenes

The ‘Making of’ The Conquest of Everest

By Toby | Published: May 16, 2013

With the 60th anniversary of the first ascent of Everest coming up on 29 May, our new title The Conquest of Everest takes a retrospective look at that legendary expedition through the photographs of the late George Lowe, the veteran mountaineer and explorer. Here is a selection of shots from the making of the book, [...]

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Creating The Rolling Stones 50 window display

By Toby | Published: July 16, 2012

To celebrate the launch of The Rolling Stones 50, Thames & Hudson has created a special window display at Foyles on Charing Cross Road, London, UK. Check out this short video for a behind-the-scenes look at how it all came together. The Rolling Stones 50 is available from our website for £29.95. Music: ‘Baby, Please [...]

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The Rolling Stones 50 video: On the press

By Toby | Published: July 3, 2012

Thames & Hudson Production Manager Ginny Liggit went to China to oversee the production of The Rolling Stones 50. Watch this video for a behind-the-scenes look at how a book gets made, and download the transcript of Ginny’s narration here. Tweet

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The Rolling Stones 50: The Making of the Cover

By Toby | Published: April 18, 2012

The cover of our new book, The Rolling Stones: 50, was realised through a collaborative effort between artist Ian Wright and the art direction team at Studio Fury. Here is the story behind it. Ian and Stephen Kennedy (creative director at Studio Fury) first worked together on album art for Ian Brown’s ‘Golden Greats’. When [...]

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Magnum Contact Sheets – Sales and Publicity

By Toby | Published: January 25, 2012

In the final installment of our ‘Life Cycle of a Book’ series, we talk to a freelance arts and books PR and Thames & Hudson’s Territory Manager for Central London, about publicizing and selling Magnum Contact Sheets. a coup for Magnum Contact Sheets publicity When did you start planning the publicity of Magnum Contact Sheets? [...]

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Magnum Contact Sheets – Production

By Sadie Butler | Published: October 6, 2011

The next installment in our Life Cycle of a Book series follows Production Controller Sadie Butler to South Korea to discover more about the production processes behind Magnum Contact Sheets. checking proofs against the printed sheet As Andrew explained in his entry about commissioning Magnum Contact Sheets, the development of a book such as this [...]

Also posted in Coming Soon, Life Cycle of a Book, Our Books, Photography | Tagged binding, book production, CMYK, colour, contact sheets, Korea, Kristen Lubben, Lifecycle of a Book, lithographic printing, Magnum Contact Sheets, Magnum Photos, Pantone, plotters, printing, printing in Korea, proofs | 3 Comments

Magnum Contact Sheets: Design # 2 – The Jacket

By Johanna Neurath | Published: September 16, 2011

For the next part in our Life Cycle of a Book series, Design Director Johanna Neurath looks at jacket design and the development of the jacket for our new Autumn title Magnum Contact Sheets. The book jacket or cover, that single, simple printed sheet of paper: its primary function is to $€££. It needs to [...]

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Magnum Contact Sheets: Design #1

By Johanna Neurath | Published: August 24, 2011

For the next part in our Life Cycle of a Book series, Design Director Johanna Neurath looks at the design development behind our new Autumn title Magnum Contact Sheets. Wow! Magnum Contact Sheets. A dream project for any book designer. OMG who wouldn’t relish the chance to revel in unseen images from some of the [...]

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Magnum Contact Sheets – Commissioning #2

By Andrew Sanigar | Published: August 10, 2011

For the second part of our new Life Cycle of a Book series, Andrew Sanigar looks back at the development of our new Autumn title Magnum Contact Sheets. Read the first part here. © Susan Meiselas To begin the process of gathering material for the book, a brief was issued which invited all the photographers [...]

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Magnum Contact Sheets: Commissioning #1

By Andrew Sanigar | Published: August 3, 2011

For the first in our new Life Cycle of a Book series, Andrew Sanigar looks back at the development of our new Autumn title Magnum Contact Sheets. Courtesy Magnum Photos It was always going to be a challenge to distill the story of how Magnum Contact Sheets was developed as a project and then commissioned [...]